Alarming Statistics Approximately 20 million people in the United States have type I or type II diabetes with another 5.1 million undiagnosed. Every 29 seconds, someone in the United States has a heart attack and every minute someone dies of a heart attack. Arthritis affects more than 15% of the U.S. population, approximately 43 million people. Asthma affects an estimated 14.9 million persons and causes over 1.5 million emergency department visits, 500,000 hospitalizations, and over 5,500 deaths annually. About 20 million adults in the U.S. suffer from depression each year, and up to 25% of all women and 12% of all men in the U.S. will experience major depression. Over one million people get cancer each year. Approximately 1/2 of American men and 1/3 of American women will have some type of cancer during their lifetime. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that currently 800,000 to 900,000 people in the United States are currently living with AIDS.

A New Model in Disease Management

Wellness Connexions™ reduces healthcare costs for our Clients by positively impacting chronically ill patients. While many models emphasize the Physician--Patient relationship, we recognize that is only part of the picture. Wellness Connexions™ enables our Clients to close the care gap experienced in most disease state management models.

Healthcare Payors, Commercial and Government, are seeking programs and incentives that will deliver better quality healthcare to patients while reducing healthcare costs. A new trend soon to be sweeping the healthcare industry is “pay for performance” incentive programs. Physicians will be paid and rewarded for providing documentation that their therapies have results.

The Wellness Connexions™ model provides Primary Care Physicians with data that will track performance, eliminating the need for patient file audits. But, Wellness Connexions™ provides more than clinical outcomes measurement, it includes a full menu of products and services that address the need for disease education under our WellnessNOW!™ label.

The Wellness Connexions™ program includes the following options:

• Video training modules on a wide range of health issues and diseases such as diabetes, obesity, asthma, hypertension, cancer, smoking cessation, medication compliance, exercise, etc.;


• Cable or High Speed Internet access for employees, at worksite or home;


• Health Insurers experience lower utilization and claims experience and can pass those savings on to their customers, employers, in the form of fewer rate increases or even rate decreases.


• Dietary recommendations for cafeterias & vending and cooking demonstrations;


• Health screenings;


• Nurse and Pharmacist Help Lines;


• Multi-lingual curricula available.